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October 2026
September 2026
August 2026
- International enrollment in American higher ed declined in 2025: new data
- One year later, more campuses cross the $100,000 per year boundary
- Compact 2.0 and the McMahon statement: the Secretary of Education issues a call to action
July 2026
- The 2031 Crisis in Higher Education: a stark scenario
- Thoughts on world population day 2026 and what might come next
June 2026
- Campus closures, mergers, and cuts: a summer 2026 survey
- #ShowYourStripes: one excellent climate change visualization
- On “Eight Predictions for the Future of Higher Education”
- Higher education enrollment: new data for spring 2026
May 2026
April 2026
March 2026
- Strikes on an Iranian university and threats to hit others
- How the Iran war is hitting higher education and what might come next: an online collaborative analysis
- A horrendous flight experience courtesy of American Airlines
- How I follow the Iran war
February 2026
- Thoughts on turning 59 in the year 2026
- Campus cuts, closures, mergers, and layoffs for winter 2025-2026
January 2026
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December 2025
- Merry Christmas, all
- Launching my new book, Peak Higher Ed
- Campus closures, mergers, cuts for late 2025
- Another poll showing declining American support for higher education; some implications
November 2025
- Still off caffeine, 13 years later
- Cornell University makes a deal, but not a compact, with the Trump administration
- What I’m doing with social media and related platforms in late 2025
October 2025
- More on Trump’s “Compact” with higher education: rejections and expansion
- From the Washington, DC No Kings rally this weekend
- Campus cuts, mergers, and closures: August-September 2025 update
- Trump’s new “Compact” for higher education
September 2025
- Another jobs projection: support for the Health Care Nation scenario
- Americans’ opinions of higher education slide down, again
- Starting my AI and higher education seminar
August 2025
- Academic closures, mergers, and cuts: heading into fall 2025
- What will happen to American higher education enrollment this fall?
- When climate change dries out cloud computing
July 2025
- American colleges and universities finally crack the $100,000 per year barrier
- Changing American attitudes towards higher education, according to Gallup
- A demographic update: thoughts on world population day 2025
- Academic closures, mergers, cuts: a summer 2025 update
June 2025
- Does higher ed still make sense for students, financially?
- Joining the NoKings rally in Manassas, Virginia
- Campus cuts, mergers, and closures from spring 2025
May 2025
- How I find and listen to music in 2025
- Rubio’s new Chinese Exclusion Act: the Trump administration just went after Chinese students
- Against college for all: the AFT president
- May 3rd and Dracula arises once more
April 2025
- In memoriam: Cliff Lynch, 1954-2025
- Trump versus higher education: deportations, cuts, climate change, and academic reactions
- Protesting Trump: scenes from Hands Off, April 2025
March 2025
- Joining two anti-Trump events this month
- Trump vs higher education: a report from March 21, 2025
- Trump vs higher education: a report from March 17, 2025
- America’s religious decline may have paused: new Pew research
February 2025
- Colleges and universities taking Trump cuts
- This week the Future Trends Forum turns nine years old
- Campus closures, mergers, cuts, and crises at the start of 2025
- Where do the NSF and NIH attacks hit hardest?
January 2025
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December 2024
- Looking back at 2024 from the bloghouse
- How teenagers used technology in 2024: the latest from Pew Research
- Podcasts I’m listening to in late 2024
- How might we do climate action in academia under a second Trump administration?
November 2024
- Academic closures, mergers, cuts: October-November 2024
- International higher education study update
- What the next Trump administration might mean for higher education
- When an airport gate is a different kind of gate: a much needed delight in Austin, Texas
- Voting on election day
- Short-term thoughts for the American election: possibilities for unrest
October 2024
- Climate change, the future, and higher education: two warnings from fall 2024
- New higher education enrollment numbers: a mixed bag
- Simulating a Trump victory and what it could mean for colleges and universities
- Universities on Fire wins a book award
- Academia in the storms’ path: the new hurricane season
- A climate fiction syllabus
- Academic closures, mergers, and cuts: August-September 2024 edition
September 2024
- What would a second Trump administration mean for higher education? Summing up Project 2025
- Finishing our reading of Project 2025
- Some questions I’d ask at tonight’s presidential debate
- Reading Project 2025, part 8: redoing the economy and what it means for higher education
- Reading Project 2025, part 7: rethinking government and the economy
August 2024
- Starting my technology and innovation seminar at Georgetown
- Reading Project 2025, part 6: the interior, justice, and labor
- Imagining some upcoming solar power possibilities
- Reading Project 2025, part 5: changing energy, health, human services, and HUD
- Getting ready to teach our Georgetown Foundations seminar
- Reading Project 2025, part 4: overthrowing the Department of Education
- Peak higher education: seeing what AI makes of recent enrollment data
- Reading Project 2025, part 3: defense, welfare, and higher education
- Academic closures, mergers, and cuts: July 2024 edition
July 2024
- Reading Project 2025, part 2: changing the military, Homeland Security, diplomacy, and higher education
- Redesigning my information technology usage because my eyeballs betray me
- Reading Project 2025, part 1: the agenda and the start of a guidebook
- What might Biden’s withdrawal mean for higher education?
- “The professors are the enemy”: J.D. Vance on higher education
- Getting ready to read Project 2025 in an open, online discussion
- American views of higher education continue to worsen
- Preparing for a second Trump administration
- Academic closures, mergers, and cuts: June 2024 edition.
June 2024
- Thoughts on last night’s presidential debate for higher education
- Thinking about climate change and international study
- Some college, no degree update: an enormous swath of higher education
- More academic cuts: May 2024 edition
May 2024
- A futurist decarbonizes his professional travel in 2024: problems and options
- Spring enrollment data: a surprise upward curve
- News from me: two media updates
- When will the first college or university charge six figures per year? A 2024 update
- Health care nation appears in some high schools
April 2024
- Academic cuts, mergers, and closures from April
- Demographic update: American births continue to decline
- For Earth Day 2024
- One gaming design exercise in a seminar
- Heading to ASU-GSV 2024
- Watching _Civil War_: impressions and disappointment
- How will the FAFSA debacle impact colleges and universities this fall?
- Universities on Fire, one year later: glimpsing the present and a hopeful future
March 2024
- March is the cruelest month: more academic cuts and closures
- John Oliver’s student loan crisis update
- More academic cuts in early 2024
- Four years of a vegan diet
- Starting my new book project: Peak Higher Education
- Starting 2024 with all kinds of academic cuts
February 2024
- Two futures events today
- Looking for a more ambitious writing experience in an app: an exploration
- Turning 57 in the year 2024
- Massachusetts removes college degree requirements from most state jobs
- Did the decade-long enrollment decline turn around?
January 2024
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December 2023
- From 2023 to 2024: academia and climate change
- From 2023 to 2024: a growing academic civil war
- Preparing my gaming and education class for spring 2024
- Leading DEI work on campus during a nationwide backlash
- Some student loan holders begin payment, while others do not
- Naming our time: some new terms to try on
- America and China’s big ask for higher education: on the Sunnylands statement
- Come study with me at Georgetown University
November 2023
- Undergraduate completion rates stabilize; one third of students don’t finish college in under six years
- How to support an independent higher education futurist on Giving Tuesday
- Some critical readings on AI for my graduate students: an updated reading list
- What should my grad students read about emerging AI?
- Academic cuts and queen sacrifices across the country
- More academic climate action occurring
October 2023
- 2023 can stop doing this stuff right now
- Pummeling campuses and research
- Higher education trends: live-blogging a Gartner update
- Heading to Chicago for the 2023 EDUCAUSE conference
- Social media platform numbers: how many people are using what today?
September 2023
- A new campus climate change group appears: Cornell on Fire
- America’s higher education consensus is breaking up: responding to Paul Tough
- An update on my summer crises
- One big reason webinars suck
- How high will today’s largest endowments grow by 2055?
- To grow or not to grow? Take this with a giant pile of salt.
August 2023
- One nation mandates climate classes for its entire higher education system
- Starting my future of higher education seminar at Georgetown
- Solarpunk as a way of redesigning higher education for the climate crisis
- More campuses under extreme weather
- Higher education and climate change: two stories from August 2023
- Are you teaching about climate change and education? I’m available as a guest speaker.
- Personal downsides of 2023, or why I’m a bit quieter than usual
- What I’m doing with social media now
- Envisioning and planning for climate change in higher education
July 2023
- What are campuses doing about AI this fall semester?
- The Deluge: notes on a leading climate fiction novel
- American views on higher education worsen, again
- The hottest days on record have been this week
June 2023
- AI, higher education, and the future: launching a Substack
- Academia and the climate crisis: snapshots from June, 2023
- Ten years of our futures enterprise!
- Personal thoughts on Ted Kaczynski’s death
- Thinking through smoke
- Thinking about the future of the web
- Climate change: another week of a ratcheting up crisis
- Looking ahead 200 years: another age of epic growth
May 2023
- What does the future look like if humanity shrinks, instead of grows?
- Two stories of campuses doing something about climate change
- American higher education enrollment decline returns to pre-pandemic level
- Some large-scale decisions we can make about AI in 2023
- Americans’ religious beliefs in transformation: new research
- New York announces a climate change campus
- When will the first university or college charge $100,000 per year?
- Rebooting my use of Mastodon
- Extrapolations: notes on Apple’s climate fiction series, episodes 4-8
- American faith in higher education is declining: one poll
April 2023
- Queen sacrifice at St. Cloud State University
- Thoughts on Earth Day 2023
- Instructors after AI
- Come study with me at Georgetown University
- One small glimpse of upcoming campus climate change politics
- Digital storytelling with generative AI: notes on the appearance of #AICinema
March 2023
- My new book, Universities on Fire, is now in the world
- How might higher education respond to GPT-4? A community conversation with Ruben Puentedura
- Imagining the climate crisis: notes on Extrapolations
- Slashing humanities degrees; preparing for a queen sacrifice?
- A flurry of AI releases now: GPT-4 and new educational projects
- Redesigning higher education in the spirit of donut economics
- What does it mean when leading universities accept millions of dollars from fossil fuel companies?
- Experimenting with using ChatGPT as a simulation application
February 2023
- Another queen sacrifice might be in the works, this time in Virginia
- Two figures for generative AI: the calculator and the mad scientist’s assistant
- Some ways for generative AI to transform the world
- A queen sacrifice at Saint Leo University
- How higher education might respond to the climate crisis: an introductory interview
- Three years of pandemic: risks, losses, and lessons
- 56: another great year closer to the grave
- American higher education enrollment: the decline declines?
January 2023
- My spring seminar on educational technology is now live
- Employers, hire more people without college degrees, says the New York Times
- Talking with college presidents about the climate crisis
- One university conducts another queen sacrifice
- My new book appears in print: hello, Universities on Fire!
- A state government asks one university for data on its DEI and critical race theory work
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December 2022
- Please stop making “my greatest hits of the year” lists
- Another power station attack
- How many colleges and universities are blocking TikTok?
- ChatGPT and higher education: last week and this week
- Two more American campuses launch queen sacrifices
- Resources for exploring ChatGPT and higher education
- Two more queen sacrifices in the planning stage
- What is going on with attacks on American power stations?
- What’s the best way to work with pdfs in 2022?
- The pandemic as portal
- Early signs of struggle for economics and higher ed’s future: more growth versus degrowth
November 2022
- My month after COVID
- One college takes steps to protect itself from rising sea levels
- Another campus expands climate classes – this time, because the students made it happen
- COVID diary, day 8 – out of isolation!
- COVID diary days 5-7
- COVID diary, days 3+4
October 2022
- COVID-19 finally gets me, days 1 and 2
- Live-blogging the Dickinson College International Climate Symposium, day 3
- Live-blogging the Dickinson College International Climate Symposium, day 2
- Live-blogging the Dickinson College International Climate Symposium, day 1
- Higher education enrollments declined again in fall 2022, according to new data: some observations
- One university’s climate change plan
- Talking about higher education, the future, and climate change at Culture Study
- Imagining future universities with Midjourney images
- Another day in the life of a futurist
- More on changing American religion and higher education
September 2022
- Modeling the decline of American Christianity
- Campus climate change schema: one example
- How campuses might act on climate change: a new framework
- Emporia State University fires tenure-track faculty, commits a queen sacrifice
- Extreme heat and California higher education
- What does the new work from home situation mean for higher education?
- Modeling civil unrest in the United States: some historical cases
August 2022
- Extreme heat, reduced rivers, and higher education
- Starting up my future of higher education seminar this week
- Biden announces a student loan forgiveness policy
- The Inflation Reduction Act and higher education: open thread
- Upgrading cooling centers
- How do we think of our present time, looking to the future? The 2022 Polycrisis and what comes next
- Sea level rise and academia in one nation: New Zealand
July 2022
- Discussing higher education, jobs, and inequality with Tony Carnevale
- Decarbonizing my professional travel
- A brutal heat wave, a Biden possibility, and what they might mean for higher education
- Campus technology for the climate crisis: a summer 2022 workshop
- A shattered consensus: the end of college for everyone
- Chat waterfall: one videoconferencing practice
June 2022
- The end of Roe and what it might mean for American higher education
- Reading the new IPCC report: mitigating climate change, continued
May 2022
- American higher education enrollment declined again, continuing a decade-long trend
- Climate and higher ed: our book club IPCC reading heads to live video
- Starting up our gaming and education seminar
- So you want to create an online class independent of a school
- Reading the new IPCC report: mitigating climate change
- Year three of the pandemic: one million plus dead in America and we’re moving on
- Which university or college will be the first to charge $100,000 per year? Checking in on a 2018 forecast
- Reading the new IPCC report: diving into the Technical findings
- Designing games for education
- The Climate Game: an educational simulation from the Financial Times
- Reading the new IPCC report: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
April 2022
- A queen sacrifice proposed in Arkansas
- Continuing our reading of the new IPCC report
- Please talk me out of a grim climate crisis analysis and forecast
- Starting to think about how the climate crisis hits campuses
- A glimpse into one state’s university enrollment changes
- Americans often estimate other Americans inaccurately, it turns out
- I’m interviewed for an Inside Higher Ed podcast
- 300 videos: the Future Trends Forum passes another milestone
March 2022
- Why has higher education decided on Zoom?
- Writing a book: the reviewers’ revisions step
- How many COVID casualties will Americans accept in order to reopen society? Poll results
- Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as climate crisis war
February 2022
- I couldn’t turn 55, but I did, and I am
- Simulations and scenarios for the Ukrainian crisis
- What might the Ukraine crisis mean for academia?
- How many COVID casualties will Americans accept in order to reopen society? A poll
- How campuses engage with the climate crisis: a taxonomy
- Noted in The Nation
- How not to write about the costs of higher ed: another example
January 2022
- Omicron and higher education: a tale of two nations in January 2022
- web3 and higher education: our first Future Trends Forum exploration
- How not to write about HyFlex or online learning
- Starting my 2022 Georgetown University ed tech seminar
- Higher education enrollment declined in fall 2021: the latest data
- Campuses moving classes online this month: updated data and map
- Playtesting a university simulation game in a graduate seminar
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December 2021
- This blog in the year 2021
- How will colleges and universities plan for January? A crowdsourced tracking project
- Rethinking education for the new normal: our conversation with Lee Skallerup Bessette
- A pandemic milestone and what might come next
- Imagining the climate crisis in the near future: Neal Stephenson’s Termination Shock
- Looking ahead to COVID-19’s third year: what it may mean for higher education
- Looking ahead to COVID-19’s third year
November 2021
- Support your independent higher education futurist
- The climate crisis has hit the Smithsonian Museum and it will get worse
- Podcasts I’m listening to in November 2021
- Nearly two years of eating a vegan diet: a futurist’s update and a giant menu
- Two state university systems shrink over a year and a decade
October 2021
- Academia, climate change, and the future: an interview with Kim Stanley Robinson
- American higher education enrollments declined, again: new NSCRC data
- American higher education enrollment declined in 2020: US Census
- What neonationalism may mean for higher education
- The Biden administration seems to support increased academic engagement with the climate crisis
- Learning innovation theory: one exercise
- American tinderbox: a new poll
September 2021
- Climate change changes students: one story
- Isaac Asimov’s Foundation as a tv series, part 1
- The United Nations publishes a climate report; I ask a question
- A modest presidential proposal
- Reading the new IPCC climate crisis report: part 1
August 2021
- The latest data on American demographics and what it means for higher education’s future
- Starting my future of higher education seminar tonight: the syllabus
- Do students prefer online or in-person classes this fall semester?
- Starting my technology and innovation seminar
- Fall semester toggle terms so far
- More toggle terms in play as fall classes draw nigh and Delta rages
- The pandemic is getting worse. What does this mean for fall semester?
- Read the IPCC climate change report with us!
- Scenarios for the next COVID-19 variants: the SAGE document
- Should higher education advance or oppose geoengineering?
July 2021
- Delta COVID changes the pandemic struggle: a leaked CDC document and what it means for higher ed
- Four futures for higher education after neoliberalism
- American life expectancy declined, mostly due to COVID-19
- Have master’s degrees gone too far? A critique and a discussion
- Will humanity take these decarbonizing steps this year? The Lynas choice
- Heat domes, low-density campuses, and what we can do: two excellent readings
June 2021
- Three big ed tech projects: cashing out or historic investments?
- A leaked climate report and what it could mean for higher education
- Bryan Alexander Consulting, after eight years
- An evolving Manifesto for Teaching Online
- American higher education enrollment declined again this spring
- Bill Maher vs. higher ed
May 2021
- An encounter with Facebook’s laughable “content moderation”
- American tuition discounting rose again: what that means and why it matters
- What should we ask an expert in government education and technology policy?
- Adding gaming and gamification to instructional design: notes and more from last week’s Future Trends Forum
- Which university or college will be the first to charge $100,000 per year? Checking in on a 2018 forecast
- American birth rates decline, again, and why this matters for higher education
- American higher education enrollment declined in spring 2021, continuing a multi-year trend
April 2021
- Looking back to April 2020: losses, gains, and checking on my futuring work
- The 2021 Earth Day summit and higher education
- Higher education and climate change: a snapshot of this month’s developments
- Queen sacrifice at Pacific Lutheran University
- Americans using social media: a 2021 update from Pew Research
- One plan for American higher ed this fall: how many campuses are requiring vaccines? UPDATED
- American church membership and religious affiliation continue to decline
March 2021
- What our pandemic year tells us about how we might respond to the climate crisis
- Curricular analytics: one project and many questions
- Looking ahead to higher ed in fall 2021: struggling towards normalcy
- How might American academia respond to rising tensions with China?
- Supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion in higher ed IT: a conversation and resources
- Getting my second COVID vaccination
- When COVID hit higher education: one year ago this week
- Newsletters I’m following in early 2021
February 2021
- US-China tensions continue and academia is very involved
- Redesigning a university: a discussion with president Paul LeBlanc
- From the Kara Sea to the college quad
- What do Mars and Texas tell us about technology?
- Getting my first COVID vaccination shot: good news, bad news
- Teaching this spring: an educational technology seminar
- Turning 54: delight, decay, nostalgia, the future
- Futures thinking and the pandemic: looking back one year ago
- How will higher education react to an expanded pandemic this semester?
January 2021
- How is higher education adapting to the pandemic? Introducing #COVedStories
- A survey is open: lessons from higher ed’s COVID-19 response
- Some podcasts I’m listening to in January 2021
- The CDC links in-person university operations with COVID spread
- My climate change work in Numérique responsable
- Using social media for news: the latest Pew update
- Higher education in January 2021
- On the Future Trends Forum for the next two months+
- Our Ministry for the Future reading: the end
- 2020 and me: personal reflections
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December 2020
- Wreckage and hope: looking towards 2021 from 2020
- Queen sacrifice in Pennsylvania
- Our Ministry for the Future reading: part 4
- Interviewing the founder of the U Experience
- Our Ministry for the Future reading: part 3
- Good news for 2020: the COVID-19 vaccine triumph
- Higher education fall 2020 enrollments: the latest data
- A high school graduation forecast from WICHE
- Our Ministry for the Future reading: part 2
- Campuses and COVID: several updates
- College enrollment decline: new data on high school graduates
- Our Ministry for the Future reading: part 1
- The post-COVID summer of higher education
November 2020
- The book club is back with Ministry for the Future
- Towards teaching well online: a Forum conversation
- American academia goes home for the holidays: will this contribute to the pandemic’s spread?
- A splendid award from the Council of Independent Colleges
- Fall 2020 higher ed’s enrollment decline, an update
- Introducing a little parlor game: 3+ Brilliants
- Toggle terms rise as COVID-19 surges across the United States, suggesting a more online spring semester
- Looking ahead to the next eight years of climate change action: possibilities and a poll
- Higher education grapples with COVID in early November 2020: pandemic, death, bad data, toggles, and a look to 2021
- My Academia Next book wins 2020 Most Significant Futures Work award
- Election 2020: this frozen moment, this confrontation of the ghosts
- Election Day in the United States: what are you seeing in and around academia?
October 2020
- Halloween 2020: America’s Great Fear
- Another seminar gaming experiment: Future University, a little role playing, a little tabletop
- Higher education and climate change, a view from late 2020
- Snapshots of COVID on campus: evidence from late October 2020
- Is higher ed’s response to COVID hurting academia’s reputation?
- Did a county slap a toggle term onto a major university?
- COVID-19 and higher education in mid-October: infections, deaths, plans, seasons, toggle terms, and a data disaster
- College and university enrollment fell even more steeply this fall, continuing a long term trend
- Tomorrow: inside college admissions, with Jeff Selingo
- How does the coronavirus intersect with climate change? Part 2: the dress rehearsal
- NPR rips higher ed for poor pandemic testing
- How does the coronavirus intersect with climate change? Part 1
- Trump tests positive for COVID-19: a futurist’s questions and possibilities, plus your thoughts
September 2020
- Humanity to 2100: a new demographic analysis
- A community discussion of implementing HyFlex in the real world
- Goodbye, delicious steak: adapting to a vegan diet in 2020
- American higher ed enrollment declined in fall 2020. Again.
- Two more Toggle Term cases
- Imagining higher education after three COVID years
- Imagining the pandemic continues into 2023: part 2
- Toggle Terms continue in September’s 2nd week; one student death
- Imagining the pandemic continues into 2023: part 1
- Drs. Fauci and Birx come out against rising Toggle Terms
- More Toggle Term campuses
- Another day, another set of campuses flip from in-person to online
- Launching my new technology seminar
August 2020
- Two more campuses leap online, enacting Toggle Terms
- Teaching my first gaming in education seminar
- COVID-19 on campus: a New York Times survey and a data void
- Campus COVID dashboards: a list and what we can learn from them
- Today’s COVID-19 anecdote: an encounter with the maskless
- Will higher education crack down on fraternities and sororities as COVID-19 dangers?
- Another Toggle Term: North Carolina State University
- More campuses head online, another Toggle Term situation, and debates over killing students: today in COVID-19 higher education
- Campuses open and COVID-19 infections spread
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill jumps back online: our first Toggle Term case study
- Academia Next – it’s discount time for my book!
- About the academic work/life balance: a discussion and resources
- Which colleges and universities are cutting prices or offering other deals for the upcoming academic year?
- Gaming and scenarios for November’s election
- What are the criteria for flipping a fall semester into a Toggle Term?
- Announcing a new project: Higher Education’s Big Rethink
- What happens to the Trump administration when Trump leaves office? A crowdsourced query.
- In late July academia changed its mind about the fall term
July 2020
- COVID cuts deepen: higher education starts confronting fall 2020 realities
- Into the fall: upcoming video conversations
- Webinars that don’t suck: the Monster Manual game
- How are towns and communities reacting to campuses opening up?
- One particular problem with the ICE international student ruling
- Liberal arts colleges look to fall 2020
- COVID-19 guts the middle: Matt Reed on higher ed, the economy, and the pandemic
- ICE rules against international students taking online semesters, gestures towards one academic future
- When will campuses end in-person instruction this fall? How about August or September?
June 2020
- My Patreon supporters are awesome
- Another campus announces a mixed fall term: the University of Michigan
- A public library system resumes some operations
- Towards fall 2020 in higher education: what an “in person semester” really means
- Harvard considers an online fall semester for undergraduates
- Seven years later: Bryan Alexander Consulting in 2020
- One example of climate change directly impacting higher education
- Looking ahead to fall 2020
- Special COVID-19 Future Trends in Technology and Education report
- A wave of American protests: where are we headed?
May 2020
- American higher education enrollment declined again – *before* the pandemic hit
- Some of my upcoming live video events for this summer
- Responding to Scott Galloway’s pandemic reflections
- Webinars that don’t suck – part 2
- Meanwhile, a demographic update
- Talking about COVID-19 and higher education with the Wall Street Journal
- Launching my new class on gaming, design, and education
- Two competing visions of fall higher education, plus a ghostly third
- Webinars that don’t suck – part 1
- Transforming the professoriate: this week in the Chronicle of Higher Education
- A special FTTE COVID-19 report, free and open
- Problems planning for a Post-Pandemic Campus this fall
- The first wave of pandemic cuts to colleges and universities
April 2020
- My new book project begins: Universities on Fire
- Early signs of fall 2020: three paths, three scenarios for higher education
- Higher education in fall 2020: three pandemic scenarios
- A video-based community responds to the coronavirus
- The coronavirus and I: an Easter update
- How will the pandemic change college and university curricula?
- Flipping the higher ed new normal: from synchronous to asynchronous education
- Transmissions from the pandemic’s fringe
- FTTE report: special and open COVID-19 edition
- Two pandemic scenarios for March 2021
- And now for something different and less dire
March 2020
- COVID-19 versus higher ed: the downhill slide becomes an avalanche
- Higher education is already feeling the first effects of COVID-19
- Reflecting on higher ed in the pandemic
- COVID-19 in 2020: several scenarios
- Reading for the plague: a syllabus
- The moment for a partisan pandemic
- Anticipating a pandemic
- Coronavirus and the world: today and four forecasts
- COVID-19 and higher education: three video gatherings
- The little spreadsheet that could, and did: crowdsourcing COVID-19, higher education, data, and stories
- Coronavirus and the world: how futurists have been working on this kind of thing for years
- Coronavirus and higher education resources
- Coronavirus, the world, and academia: 2020 March 6 update
- Coronavirus and academia: what can we do to help now?
- COVID-19, academia, and the big push online: an update
February 2020
- What does COVID-19 mean for higher education? Looking ahead.
- How I track the coronavirus
- Today’s grim higher education indicators
- Pandemic and academic possibilities: the coronavirus outbreak continues
- More queen sacrifices in Michigan, Texas, and Arkansas
- Essential Films for Technology and the Future 101: a syllabus
- What might the coronavirus mean for higher education?
- A new virus appears in the world
- I discuss Academia Next on Trending in Education
- Snapshot of a conversational morning
- Five community colleges to merge
- Higher ed and climate change: the end of academic conferences as we know them
- In the media for Academia Next
January 2020
- One forecast for higher ed in the 2020s
- 4 futures for how civilization could respond politically to climate change
- Navigating my way into veganism
- Starting this semester’s seminar on education and technology
- Cybersecurity futures: scenarios and good practice
- One useful datapoint on how Americans think about higher ed availability and affordability
- Decades late, most American states start trying to attempt to start to get around to trying to spend a little more money on higher ed
- Discussing the future of higher ed with Bonni Stachowiak, a podcaster who knows the web
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December 2019
- What do you anticipate for 2020?
- The dead won’t shut up: on Star Wars, The Rise of Skywalker
- A warped AI Christmas
- Two professional notices
- Have you played Webinar Bingo?
- American higher education enrollment declines again, continuing a nearly decade-long trend
- How important is higher ed to Americans?
- The American population continues to change: fewer children, shorter lifespans
- American religious affiliation keeps changing: less Christianity, more “nones”
- Two stories for climate change and higher education
- Two scenarios for global higher education
November 2019
- How will we try to fix Facebook?
- Writing a book: some thoughts
- The most dangerous report in higher education
- International enrollment in American higher ed either declined again or became more training-oriented
- Books on gaming in education
- The future of education and climate change: part 7
- Another academic merger; another college exits Vermont
- The future of higher education and climate change, part 6: California on fire
October 2019
- Talking about futurism as a career
- The future of higher education and climate change: part 5
- 5 AIs in Search of a Campus
- The future of higher education and climate change: part 4
- The future of higher education and climate change: part 3
- How will higher education respond to climate change? Part 2
- How will higher education respond to climate change? Part 1
- What is the Zeroth World, and how can we use it?
- Grad school enrollment: mostly good news, but some bad news
- Six years later: Bryan Alexander Consulting in 2019
- How likely are campus mergers?
September 2019
- Some podcasts I’m listening to in 2019
- What Americans think of the present and future of science and technology
- A global futures event is happening online this November
- When a campus merger falls apart
- Thoughts on chatbots
- The Future Trends Forum community reflects
- When new ideas boom, bust, then come roaring back: around the U-bend
- Clouds and networks: reflections on James Bridle’s New Dark Age
August 2019
- The partisan divide widens over American higher education, and it may cost us
- Getting ready for my fall seminar on the future of higher education
- Teaching a graduate seminar on technology and innovation
- How far will digital video go?
- Today, a video-presentation-network experiment
- Digital storytelling with Apollo 50
July 2019
- Climate change and behavior modification: the uses and limits of shaming
- How to merge a college with a university
- 50 years after Apollo 11: what will we do in space for the next 50 years?
- How to shrink a university and how to talk about it: one campus begins the process
- The changing geography of work: a new report
- College and university financial health: one important view
- Histories of technological innovation: a reading list
- Living in the 21st century: drones versus autonomous cars
- Outsourcing campus IT: what next?
June 2019
- Another glimpse of the rest of the 21st century
- Alaska gears up to clobber its universities
- Opposing ways for universities to support senior citizens as students: the case of Minnesota
- An illustrative story about public higher education funding
- 21st century American religion: decreasing church membership, rising generational divides
- Technology trends: on Mary Meeker’s new report
- Following the human tide
- Concluding thoughts on Surveillance Capitalism
- Humanity’s next century: an Empty Planet for education?
- Reading the Age of Surveillance Capitalism: chapters 17 and 18
- On the empowered student: thoughts from an international team
- American college and university enrollment declines again – for the 8th year in a row
May 2019
- The next human nature: reading the Age of Surveillance Capitalism, chapters 15 and 16
- Queen sacrifice in Pennsylvania
- Station identification, May 2019
- Reading the Age of Surveillance Capitalism: chapters 13 and 14
- Business and health care up, the humanities sink: higher ed enrollment data
- Another college commits to a queen sacrifice
- Totalitarianism and conditioning: reading the Age of Surveillance Capitalism, chapters 11 and 12
- Race, sex, law, and drones: this week’s snapshots of the future
- Talking higher education on the Disruptors podcast
- Reading the Age of Surveillance Capitalism: chapters 9 and 10
- If billionaires take up geoengineering on their own
- Blogging Dracula since 2005
- Futuring and digital storytelling with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
April 2019
- My daily practice in mid-2019: tools of the trade
- Body rendition and the internet of data: reading the Age of Surveillance Capitalism: chapters 7 and 8
- Books on emerging ed tech: a crowdsourced reading list
- 50,000 tweets and rising
- Reading the Age of Surveillance Capitalism: chapters 5 and 6
- What’s the best book about emerging technologies and education? A syllabus query.
- My new book is now available for pre-order
- Americans imagine the future of education and everything else
- Reading the Age of Surveillance Capitalism: chapters 3 and 4
- Which AI project should my students work on for a summer class?
- Public higher ed: still in the Great Recession’s shadow
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: chapters 1 and 2
- My class visits an augmented reality exhibit
- One technology future: a ubiquitous display ecosystem
- Reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: our plan
March 2019
- Another campus closure, another queen sacrifice
- Writing about my ed tech seminar in EdSurge
- Our next reading is Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- Notes on the US News & World Report higher education apocalypse
- A cruel pedagogical exercise I inflicted upon my students
- The college admissions/athletics scandal gets parodied
- How do people use digital, social media? A new Edison survey
- Thoughts on the latest college admission and athletics scandal
- Which nonfiction book should our book club read next?
- When a government takes the future a bit more seriously
- An academic accreditor looks at higher ed’s horizon
- Another small American college will close
February 2019
- Casualties of the future: college closures and queen sacrifices
- From the country towards the city
- Are mega-universities the future?
- Some stories for the future of education
- Moving and turning 52
- What role will academia play if the US-China conflict escalates?
- International student applications to American universities declined for the second year
- Senior citizens hold more student debt: a Wall Street Journal report
- Seven years after giving up caffeine
January 2019
- Announcement: we’re moving
- Adjuncts, harassment, finance, and technology: a look into the chief academic officer mind
- A passel of stories about education and technology
- What does the Covington story tell us?
- American higher education cut hundreds of foreign language programs
- Another American college to close
- One state plans for more college closures
- On futures, education, life, and business: I’m interviewed by the Geyser
- They Shall Not Grow Old and what it says about digital storytelling
- Debunking cell service carriers, or: another tale of rural connectivity
- This week’s stories of higher education in trouble: merger, consolidation, and beer
- Some universities figure out a creative approach to demographics
- The future of stupid fears
- Discussing how to better engage students
- “You are the product”: one interesting source for the meme
- One rural future: the fall of the countryside
- My new class is about educational technology
- Futures thinking with Bruce Sterling
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December 2018
- Looking back on 2018 from this blog
- Twitter and Tear Gas: concluding our book club’s reading
- An update on American demographics
- On liberal education surviving the 21st century
- Twitter and Tear Gas: part five of our book club’s reading
- Considering a forecast that didn’t come to pass
- A Boston liberal arts college will close
- Moving towards a cashless world
- Where Americans find news: an update
- Twitter and Tear Gas: part four of our book club’s reading
- Why is American society breaking away from the developed world?
- From the 2018 ITHAKA Next Wave conference: libraries, publishers, and higher education
- Twitter and Tear Gas: part three of our book club’s reading
- American demographics take a turn for the worst, for the third year running
November 2018
- Today, Ithaka’s Next Wave conference
- The humanities keep declining: the case of history
- Twitter and Tear Gas: part two of our book club’s reading
- From free to paid subscription: a report on the FTTE transition so far
- The Trump administration considers adding emerging tech and academia to the China trade war
- Twitter and Tear Gas: part one of our book club’s reading
- Exploring Mastodon
- One queen sacrifice proceeds while another campus launches the opposite
- Thoughts on “Operation InfeKtion”: digital literacy and digital storytelling
- I become a figure of dread, briefly
- New demographic research for educators and futurists
- When the guns stopped, but the future kept happening
- Our Twitter and Teargas book club reading schedule
- One university to close, another lays off faculty, and two more will merge
October 2018
- This week in Denver: join me at EDUCAUSE
- Looking ahead to 2040 and beyond: some hesitation
- The Adams game: an exercise for educators in 2018
- Are student loans succeeding? The Roosevelt Institute thinks not.
- American birthrates decline again
- Student loans in the present and future: a Bloomberg analysis
- Is college price inflation slowing down?
- An update on state funding for public higher ed
- Simpson College commits to a queen sacrifice
- Our next book club reading is Zeynep Tufekci’s Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
- When public universities have to raise funds like private institutions
- What nonfiction book should our online book club read next?
- American graduate school enrollment: a new decline, driven by international students
- Notes on China: possible threats to American higher education
- My next future of education workshop is November 13th, near Boston
September 2018
- Today, a Future Trends Forum Extra
- Scenario: Retro Campus
- Where does net neutrality stand in fall 2018?
- Higher education: the admissions officer view
- Hayabusa2 and the unfolding future of space exploration
- Thanking my Patreon supporters
- An unremarkable yet useful update on the student loan fiasco
- Ten years after the financial meltdown: what did it mean for education and the future?
- My class, two weeks in
- Did the European Parliament just hit the internet with a big, dumb stick?
- The stark geography of America’s digital divide
- Heading into my new class
- The FTTE report is now a paid subscription publication
- When campuses start matching each other’s prices to snatch students
- I am profiled as an ax-wielding futurist
August 2018
- Another scenario for higher education’s future: the triumph of open
- That bloated administration: a look back at The Fall of the Faculty
- One scenario for 2040: Fragmentation
- Why does college cost so much? One very good explanation
- Two useful charts for the future of education: jobs and students
- Headed to the EDUCAUSE conference this October and hoping to see you there
- One future for education: health care nation
- New York 2140: concluding thoughts
- The 2018 Horizon Report has appeared, thanks to EDUCAUSE
- Students are driving textbook prices down and OER forward
- The upcoming crisis in Connecticut higher education: a case study for the nation
- New York 2140: part four
- What is the world worrying about in 2018?
- A day in the life of a futurist, 2018 edition
- New York 2140: part three
- Futures, educations, novels, dystopia and utopia
- How can small colleges survive the 21st century?
July 2018
- How healthy are American colleges? Their chief business officers speak.
- New York 2140: part two
- Americans sour on higher education’s future: new Pew survey
- New York 2140: part one
- Falling into a connectivity hole in modern America
- Why are the financial rewards from higher education falling?
- American higher ed is overbuilt
- Our online book club’s next reading is… New York 2140
- Launching phase 2 of the Future Trends Forum: new directions
- One campus imagines its future: the Georgia Tech plan
- Paid Off: today’s perfect symbol for how we pay for American higher ed
- Weekend question: where will automation take us by 2033?
- Our favorite mobile apps: Appy Hour on the Future Trends Forum
- Harlan Ellison, RIP
- In silver memory
- I return to teaching
June 2018
- The 2008 financial crash and what came next: John Lanchester and education
- “Estrellita”: a powerful digital story about immigration, ICE, and Vermont
- Will the United States experience civil unrest in 2018-2019?
- Scenario: the alt. residential campus of 2028
- Which science fiction book should our book club read this summer?
- Tomorrow: “Appy Hour” on the Future Trends Forum
- An article and a powerful conversation: two updates on code name FOEcast
- Discussion question: why is Facebook succeeding financially?
- This week’s future signals: search, trains, pizza, and neoliberalism
- Starting up phase two of the Future Trends Forum
- Five years ago this week we started something new. What has it become?
- Higher education is ailing. It hasn’t been destroyed – yet.
- “Here’s How Higher Education Dies”: I am interviewed in the Atlantic
- Pushing back on peak higher ed: a discussion with Joshua Kim
- What the Mary Meeker slides mean for the future of education
- Kids in America, using social media and playing computer games
May 2018
- Academia after peak higher education
- Building an American caste system, part 2: the 9%
- American higher education enrollment declined. Again.
- Discussing the book in progress with EdSurge
- When an ISP fails: the case of Consolidated Communications
- Cuts, more cuts, a school’s closure, and another closure
- Thoughts on the practice of interviewing: the one on one interview
- Which university or college will be the first to reach $100,000 per year?
- When the mobile revolution and the digital divide combine
- Unschooling and revolutions: finishing Walkaway
- When futuring flops: the case of The Fourth Turning
- Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium to shut down
- What should a futures project look like? We held a FOEcast event at an unconference to find out.
- Another college considers closing
April 2018
- Walkaway U: our online book club reads Walkaway’s middle chapters
- The politics of digital literacy and information control: an important survey
- From Southern Illinois, a signal from academic labor’s future
- Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality in education: a NERCOMP workshop
- Starting to read _Walkaway_
- Two thoughtful visualizations about technology, media, and ourselves
- Walkaway: our book club reading schedule
- A major report on digital learning from Arizona State University
- Post 1,000
- Two small college futures: woe in Massachusetts, promise in Michigan
- The new way of death: one possible future
- The webinar must die: a friendly proposal
- A sanguine discussion about the fate of small colleges
- Four+ stories about the future of education and technology
- Middle and high school students making history with 3d printing
- Coming up: Cory Doctorow on the Future Trends Forum and in our book club
- Fascism and imagination: reading _It Can’t Happen Here_ in 2018
March 2018
- Becoming an accidental futurist
- Why the resistance to demographics in education?
- CNN produces Gothic horror, and this is a problem
- The shake-out is coming: the Wall Street Journal looks at higher ed’s future
- The powers of digital literacies: responding to danah boyd and all
- How will income inequality shape digital literacy?
- Robots, buyouts, and spinoffs: four short stories for the future of education and technology
- Digg is going to kill Digg Reader; what should we do now?
- Two+ years of a wild ride
- Very very brief comments on blockchain and automation
- A door, a paradox, and a parable
- What we’d like to build, and how: findings from our FOECast ideation week
- On global economic inequality: a vital book for education
- Learning, thinking, making stuff together: on FOECast’s ideation week
- Another Wisconsin university to close programs, lay off faculty
- Five quick dark stories about the future of education
- Dear Delta Airlines: why the horrendous service?
- FOECast ideation week concludes with a final push: create!
- FOECast ideation week, day 4: scoping things out
- Late night thoughts on a fine day of FOECasting
February 2018
- FOECast ideation week, day 3: shaping and refining
- Two closures, a merger, and a queen sacrifice: one week in American higher ed
- FOECast ideation week, day 2: which futuring methods should we use?
- Reading and finishing _Soonish_, part 4: from bioprinting to the grave
- FOECast ideation week, day 1: brainstorming and reflection
- Another queen sacrifice: Castleton University in Vermont
- Starting this Monday: a week of brainstorming, ideation, and prototyping
- Elon Musk to create satellite broadband network
- The Future of Education Bookstore is now open
- The most important book about American higher education in 2018
- Reading _Soonish_, part 3: from augmented reality to precision medicine
- Some of this week’s stories for the future of education
- Updates on the New Media Consortium bankruptcy: a purchase, an intervention, and possibilities
- What if the United States decided to cancel all student debt?
- Reading _Soonish_, part 2: friendly nuclear power and robots
- Turning 51: entering the quinquagenarian age
- A creepy discussion thread, or a fine example of web creativity
- I am on another podcast, and it’s good
- Quick thoughts on the Falcon Heavy launch
- Reading blogs in 2018: thoughts and things to do
- Reading _Soonish_, part 1
- EDUCAUSE offers to buy the New Media Consortium’s assets
- Enter the shark tank, or when academic cultures collide
- Down with that new-fangled technology: a Vermont anecdote
- Why do we love aristocracies in the 21st century?
January 2018
- A new report from an all-women futurists group
- Our project has a title! Now for next steps
- How will we respond to the dawning age of fake video?
- An anecdote about health care, uneven technology use, and Vermont
- Four hints from the future of technology and education
- Help name our new future of education project
- Soonish: our new book club reading now has a schedule
- This Thursday: net neutrality and education in 2018
- Some podcasts I’m listening to in 2018
- Beyond the Horizon Report: a plan and a call for participation
- Three more hints from the future
- Our book club's next reading is… Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
- Preserving today's digital universe for the future: an important call
- Libraries, ed tech, net neutrality, and online learning: this month on the Future Trends Forum
- International students decline, and so do American university budgets
- Beyond the Horizon Report: towards a new project
- What should our online book club read next?
- Happy new year!
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December 2017
- Having hope about the world and education in 2018
- More end of the year writing by, about, and around me
- A disclaimer about the New Media Consortium and myself
- What next for the New Media Consortium? Today's discussion on the Forum
- American higher education enrollment declines again. For the 6th year.
- The New Media Consortium: updates and next steps
- Support my work, please! Holiday fundraising begins
- On the solstice, dark thoughts for 2018
- Cuts, clearings, and a closure: three small colleges offer a dark view of 2018
- The New Media Consortium: its sudden death and what comes next
- A 21st century strongman, enabled by the internet: a case study
- How would you design a professional association for the future?
- After net neutrality: how should educators respond?
- Patreon reverses itself; what next?
- Internet2 on net neutrality
- One datapoint on widening income inequality in education: Dollar Store is rocking
- A good resource for campus sustainability conversations
- What do campus trustees think about the future of higher education?
- "Slaughterbots": drones, some futures, and education
- Two more ed tech organizations come out swinging for net neutrality
- Update: EDUCAUSE responds to the FCC's new net neutrality policy move
- Getting the future wrong: my bad forecasts
November 2017
- On being a futurist
- The 21st century is a new Gilded Age observes Swiss bank, who should know
- What participants think of the Future Trends Forum
- The next five Future Trends Forum sessions
- Reading _Weapons of Math Destruction_, the final chapters
- Into the future with air travel dystopia
- Now comes the call for wealthy countries to make more babies
- International student applications to American campuses down in 2017: new study
- Reading _Weapons of Math Destruction_, part 5
- One more American college to close
- Another small American college will close
- Update on rogue solutions in scholarly communication
- Reading Weapons of Math Destruction, part 4
- A bloodless queen sacrifice?
October 2017
- Launching a new site: the Future of Education Observatory
- _Weapons of Math Destruction_, part 3
- Next week in Philadelphia
- My new article on the digital divide and the future of education
- _Weapons of Math Destruction_, part 2
- The future of democracy: an interesting idea
- One path forward for public higher education: ending in-state tuition discounts
- How plutocracy works in America: the DEA-opioid story
- _Weapons of Math Destruction_, part 1
- Multiple mergers ahead for the University of Wisconsin system
- What should we do next with the Future Trends Forum?
- From Trump to mobile to Blade Runner: several recent projects on the web from me and other folks
- Generations: thoughts on Blade Runner 2049
- Technological advancement: one unusual case study
- When Silicon Valley turns on itself
- Two powerful futures from Kim Stanley Robinson
- Reading _Weapons of Math Destruction_: the plan
- What we're reading next
- Another university to close
- Taking my son to college
- The institutions and organizations I've been consulting with
September 2017
- My new book project begins
- What should we read next? A survey
- Glimpses of a world of stacks
- Stony Brook launches a queen sacrifice by cutting humanities and humanists
- This week on the Future Trends Forum: an experiment about mobile education
- Three stories about where education is going
- 20 years into the future of education, via Blackboard
- Station identification: Bryan Alexander
- What happens after American higher education contracts?
- Peak higher education, 4 years later
- Equifiasco: what will happen next, and what should we do?
- Are American attitudes towards higher education segmenting?
- The next stage for the richest universities: attract more rich families
- Changing America: important new research on religious belief
- How not to write about public education
- New venues for long-form conversation online
- A parable about change
- The future of libraries lies in younger, nonwhite people without college degrees
August 2017
- Meanwhile, New America publishes an important education report
- One Boston university may save a nearby college by absorbing it
- Cat videos have brought the posthuman era upon us all
- Two new stories about the ongoing American higher ed crisis
- The Big Sort: fine, but not fine enough
- The video wall on college campuses in 2017
- Top campus IT trends: our new report
- Charlottesville and education: our video conversation
- Reviewing _Homo Deus_, alas
- Where automation actually occurs
- Launching the new NMC digital literacy report today
- Today on the Future Trends Forum: Charlottesville and education
- One college will close its entire undergraduate program
- How not to write about YouTube and politics
- Visualizing where Americans graduate from
- What happened to public higher ed? Reading Chris Newfield's essential new book
- Visualizing future trends for education and technology
- What's the best venue for long-form discussion in 2017?
- Reading _Rainbows End_: the conclusion
July 2017
- Reasons to be optimistic about the future in 2017
- How not to write about reading in 2017
- My new book is out
- Student loans are cramping the American economy: what this could mean
- Reading _Rainbows End_: part two
- When colleges switch from the liberal arts to STEM
- Moodle and the next LMS: reflections and more questions
- When education doomsayers aren't grim enough
- Reading _Rainbows End_, part 1
- Which old digital technologies will become new again?
- How the university enrollment crisis plays out in summer 2017: two stories
- A growing partisan split over American higher education
- Towards the future of the LMS: to Moodle and beyond
- I defy the world and go back to RSS
- Our next reading is _Rainbows End_, by Vernor Vinge
- Gaming the future of education: a student project
- An experiment in collective futuring, and you are invited
June 2017
- What next with the LMS? A conversation with Phill Hill, continued
- Which science fiction novel should our online book club read next?
- Somehow I emitted 40,000 Tweets and I just won't stop
- Updated American demographics: becoming an older, more diverse nation
- Concluding _Lower Ed_: the epilogue
- Maybe social media is good for us after all
- American health care reform under the Republicans: three scenarios
- Population trends for higher education beyond the United States
- Several dark stories and trends for higher education this week
- Reading _Lower Ed_: Credentials, Jobs, and the New Economy
- Building an American caste system, part 1: rural folk
- Another American college prepares for serious cuts
- Reading _Lower Ed_: Where Credit Is Due
- Which majors are growing and which are shrinking: new data
- Four years in: under the hood of my consulting firm
- Reading _Lower Ed_: When Higher Education Makes Cents
- What fake news is doing to digital literacy
- Technology trends for mid-2017: Mary Meeker's latest
- A devil’s dictionary of education keywords
May 2017
- Digital literacy and fake news: a free online discussion tomorrow
- A Future Trends Forum double-header this week
- Reading _Lower Ed_: "Jesus is my Backup Plan"
- Thoughts on Alien: Covenant
- Public universities move away from supporting poor students
- Higher education enrollment declined in 2017. Again.
- Carving up the internet in May 2017
- Reading _Lower Ed_: The Beauty College and the Technical College
- Another college readies a queen sacrifice
- Campus discount rates keep on rising, and why that matters
- When populism met higher education
- Fairpoint, our local ISP and telco, fails again and again
- Reading _Lower Ed_: The Real
- The future of jobs and education: a new Pew study
- On the road in May and June
- Reading _Lower Ed_: The Education Gospel
- Awful writing about the internet: mid-May 2017 edition
- My ruthless Facebook purge of spring 2017
- Blogging literature: the Draculablog begins again
- After human-driven cars: one future for automotive spaces
- Why I host conversations in 2017
April 2017
- Reading _Lower Ed_: the plan
- The shock of the old: still living in the 20th century
- A day in the life of a futurist
- Improving a campus without growth: Matt Reed's excellent and difficult challenge
- My next Devil's Dictionary: a call for nominations
- Talking about a new higher education startup
- Rogue approaches to scholarly communication
- Americans versus the future
- Peak electrical power: the US continues to de-industrialize
- Two new free college plans and the future of higher education
- No, technology is not what’s wrong with American air travel
- Still more campus cuts
- Our next reading: Tressie McMillan Cottom, Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy
- A short digital story about forests, snowshoeing, and memory
- An update on the staggering mass of student loan debt
- How not to write about podcasting
- When I consider how a friend's light is spent
- Still more American university cuts and mergers
- Watching my son experience school
- Is April Fool's 2017 when we pass peak prank?
March 2017
- Which book should we read next?
- What makes a great webinar? Part 1
- A new digital literacy project begins, and is looking for examples
- Has Trump's presidency cut international student interest in the US?
- More on demographics: American white people's declining lifespan and what it means for education
- America's demographic currents flowed on schedule in 2016
- Universal basic income: Bruce Sterling imagines the rest of the 21st century
- The Patreon project, two months in
- Mapping the geography of academic attainment
- The extractive democracy in 2017 and beyond
- When should video replace discussion boards?
- What is LBRY and what does it mean for education?
- Tennessee liberal arts college to drastically shrink
- Trump pours gas on the arts, humanities, sciences, and education, then asks Congress for a match
- A powerful media and information literacy project from UNESCO
- International ed tech and pedagogical projects: notes from INTED 2017
- Podcasts I'm listening to this month
- Addressing INTED in Valencia
- Explaining the 2016 elections: the generational pivot
- The very worst thing written about adjuncts and tenure in 2017
February 2017
- How to make college affordable again: _Paying the Price_
- Digital literacy and Open Learning: the final day
- Today in the Open Learning MOOC: fake news and crap detection
- Digital literacy around the world in 2017: today in the Open Learning MOOC
- Tomorrow morning I lead a video panel on digital literacy
- The ACRL Information Literacy Framework: today in the Open Learning MOOC
- Launching a week of digital literacy
- Paying the Price: readers get creative, City of Broken Dreams, and Getting to Graduation
- Two sobering datapoints for American higher education economics
- The new NMC Horizon Report for higher education is out
- The Future Trends Forum town hall meeting, where the guest is your fine selves
- Paying the Price: family matters, academic success, and financial aid
- When I Consider How My Light is Spent
- Vermont governor Scott's historic broadband mistake
- Digital literacy and anti-authoritarian politics
- Indiana college to close
- Trump's migration block and higher education
- Where you can find me this month
- Paying the Price on students trying to live through college
- On VR/AR/MR for education
- A Forum milestone: 50 videos
January 2017
- Paying the Price, chapters 2 and 3: Pell grants and the real price of higher education
- Another glimpse of European higher education and technology
- Several Pennsylvania public universities may merge or close by 2018
- Starting to read _Paying the Price_: Introduction and Possible Lives.
- Notes on the Trump inauguration speech
- The shock of the old: how Americans actually got election news in 2016
- Reading _Paying the Price_: a plan
- Crowdfunding my future of education work in 2017
- Our next book club reading: Paying the Price, by Sara Goldrick-Rab
- American higher ed enrollment declines, again
- The Future Trends Forum leaps into 2017
- How academia adjunctified faculty and mainstreamed the queen sacrifice
- The next 15 years of high school graduates
- What should the online book club read next?
- Reading Horton and Freire into 2017
- My very geeky Atlantic Monthly article
- It's time to upgrade our CRAAP detectors
- Moving forward in dark times: two inspirations
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December 2016
- Me making more media: how can it be sustained in 2017?
- What futures work should I do in 2017? Podcasts, games, Twitter storms, and the specter of FOE
- Rogue One: the weird ferocity of nostalgia
- Another effect of rising income inequality: charitable giving has changed
- A look back along the _Road_: people's work and Bryan's antiauthoritarianism
- Researchers, caught between Trump and inequality, reinvent patronage
- Boris Badenov, hacker: skeptical thoughts on the Russian election espionage affair
- In US News and World Report
- A queen sacrifice in New Hampshire
- We Make the Road by Walking: chapters 5 and 6
- What is our online book club becoming?
- Networks, hours, dollars, and strategy: BAC in 2016, looking ahead to 2017
- New findings on income inequality, and there's very little good news
- Towards the future of higher education economics
- On students as critical makers
- We Make the Road by Walking: chapter 4, “Educational Practice”
- Will the United States experience civil unrest in 2017-2018?
- Homestead's end: starting to sell our house in Vermont and what it means
- Demographics and the future of education: lessons from a new study
November 2016
- When an online book club takes off
- One new approach to funding American public education
- We Make the Road by Walking: chapter 3
- The humanitarian case for automation: the case of suicide prevention
- On that Stanford information literacy study
- Digital literacy can be an insurgency
- We Make the Road by Walking: chapters 1-2
- The plan for reading _We Make the Road by Walking_
- Our next book club reading: We Make the Road by Walking
- How Americans are using social media in 2016: essential new Pew report
- More reactions to the NMC digital literacy report
- The struggle for the Democratic party's future begins with calls to head left
- What does Trump's victory mean for higher education?
- Lame broadband is a direct hit on Vermont's livelihood
- Amy Collier today on the Future Trends Forum
- The American election, the morning after: American Brexit edition
- Strange, stupid, occasionally inspiring: reflections on Election Day 2016
- A trend to watch: teaching classes from one campus to another
- The future of everything: a workshop in December
- Creating a digital literacy report: interviews and more research
- Virtual reality, class, gender, robots, and love: continuing with _Company Town_
- Creating a digital literacy report: the survey piece, part 2
October 2016
- Creating a digital literacy report: the survey piece, part 1
- Catching up last week and this one
- How people actually use Blackboard, according to Blackboard
- Live-blogging Sugata Mitra's EDUCAUSE 2016 address
- On digital literacy: we release a new report
- The great October DDoS attack: first thoughts, implications for education
- Rural broadband update: Fairpoint weirdness and potential governors
- Next week in California: a bumper crop of Forum interviews
- Another campus sacrifices the queen: IPFW to cut programs, majors, departments
- New data on student debt
- Another campus in sharp decline
- What do Americans think about higher education? New Public Agenda research
- Genetic engineering, augmented reality, and the extractive economy: starting off _Company Town_
- Which guests would you like to see on the Future Trends Forum?
- Bridget Burns on this week's Future Trends Forum
- It's time to blow up the tv "town meeting" scam
- Our next book club reading: Madeline Ashby, Company Town
September 2016
- A Devil’s Dictionary of Educational Technology, Part 2
- Thinking about Alvin Toffler on the occasion of his death
- Which near future science fiction book should we read next?
- This week's pair of science fiction technologies phasing into everyday life: robots and rockets
- Rural broadband update: can the squeaky wheel get the ISP grease?
- The future election takes off: finishing _Infomocracy_
- A Devil’s Dictionary of Educational Technology
- What should we ask Google's education evangelist tomorrow?
- Two more science fiction technologies became real this week
- American tv "news" networks look blearily at the mirror and swear to change, for real this time
- As the election starts to go off the rails: reading _Infomocracy_
- Considering one spectacular black swan for education
- Here's a wild thought: states could help the poorest colleges and universities
- Tomorrow: should educational technology become an academic discipline?
- What the failure of lifelogging tells us about technology and the future
- How bad is rural broadband? Today's New America Foundation panel
- Augmented reality, electioneering, globalism, and sneakiness: into _Infomocracy_
- A helpful look at the whole of American higher ed, not just a few campuses
- The doom of an extraordinary mind: the case of Geoffrey Pyke
- How not to write about higher education, STEM eats literature edition
- One week of bad stories about higher education financing, and I feel fine
- Next steps for our rural broadband
- Our next science fiction reading is _Infomocracy_, by Malka Older
August 2016
- What should we ask Jonathan Rees about faculty autonomy
- Two new signs of educational inequality
- Finishing _Ready Player One_
- Why do people still disdain science fiction and fantasy?
- More Fairpoint failure follies, phone edition
- Two more 21st-century technologies appear
- Redoing my social media ecosystem for 2016: mostly the consumption side
- Into the middle of _Ready Player One_
- Portrait of a technology-using professor in 2016
- Another Fairpoint internet failure; the struggle continues
- Starting to read _Ready Player One_
- I am profiled by the Connected Learning Alliance
- This week in the 21st century
- Two small examples of technologies emerging
- Automation versus jobs: a new model
- Home internet restored after three days; disturbing issues; next steps
- Our next science fiction reading: _Ready Player One_
- Which near future science fiction book should we read next? Polls are open
- Offline in Vermont, again
- The dawning of the age of neural dust
- Finishing _The Water Knife_: the end of the world and what comes next
- Live from Campus Technology: today on the Future Trends Forum
July 2016
- American TV news is making you much more afraid than you should be
- Blockchain for higher education: Phil Long leads an energetic discussion on the Future Trends Forum
- Into _The Water Knife_
- Several visions of the future of higher education
- Powerwall progress
- One leading CIO looks at campus data and collaboration
- What would you like to see in my consulting website? A shameless plea for advice
- Starting off our science fiction reading with The Water Knife
- This Thursday on the Future Trends Forum: Dan Cohen and the DPLA
- Which near future science fiction book should we read? A blog book club query.
- How the internet could evolve to 2026: responding to Pew
- The vileness of American tv news: a new datapoint
- What is digital literacy in 2016? A research inquiry
- People reflect on the Future Trends Forum
- Two short glimpses of the technological future
- TV news as a hotline to memory
- Clinton campaign calls for mostly tuition-free public higher education: first analysis
- This week and the next on the Future Trends Forum
- Major faculty and staff cuts at Plymouth State University
- "It was our old Blood-bath – the Somme."
June 2016
- Today Inside Higher Ed meets the Future Trends Forum
- Hillary Clinton's technology plan: first thoughts and implications for education
- Towards the future of technology for education: my NMC keynote
- Dying and death in America: reviewing _Being Mortal_
- What do you think of the Future Trends Forum?
- Tomorrow’s participatory video update on future trends for education and technology
- In Inside Higher Ed, a profile and some dangerous ideas
- AAUP censures a college for its queen sacrifice
- Towards the new caste system: looking back at The New Digital Age
- University of Wyoming prepares for a queen sacrifice: “The overall goal is downsizing”
- Live from the conference floor of the New Media Consortium
- The latest in digital storytelling: an NMC conference presentation this morning
- The robot storyteller: automated creativity at the NMC conference
- Americans and learning: a nation divided
- Build your own scenario: an NMC workshop today
- The decline of the American northeast and midwest, the rise of the south and west, continued
- Bryan Alexander Consulting, three years after launch: an update and lessons learned
- The next stage of academic computing: Jonathan Huer on the Future Trends Forum
- A snapshot of non-dramatic campus economic pressure
- Thinking about the rising generation of traditional-age undergraduates
- More fine podcasts from 2016
- Internet trends: the latest Mary Meeker report
- Another small college is closing, unless a for-profit buys it
- University of Illinois considers queen sacrifice and other desperate measures
- Kentucky college to close
- Towards the internet of things in education: Robbie Melton on the Future Trends Forum, today
- American tv news stations confronting the terrifying possibility of committing journalism
May 2016
- CUNY: canary in the coal mine for American public higher education
- Bryan’s travels for June
- The Tesla Powerwall fails: life as an early adopter
- How people use social media to learn about current events: new research
- The design and future of open education: Curtis Bonk on Future Trends Forum
- George Siemens and emerging educational technology: this week on the Future Trends Forum
- Higher ed enrollments decline. Again.
- Another queen sacrifice from Kentucky higher education
- 170 staff and faculty laid off in Kentucky queen sacrifice
- Disciplining educational technology
- Virtual and mixed reality in education: Maya Georgieva on this week’s Future Trends Forum
- Futuring open education at the University of Mary Washington OER Summit
- What should one do? Looking for practical advice for people on today’s academic market
- Emerging technologies in education: Phil Long on this week’s Future Trends Forum
- A glimpse of the widening class divide in American life at Further Future
- The future of libraries and faculty attitudes towards information: Deanna Marcum returns to the Future Trends Forum
- Experimenting with a new technology: PowerWall
- Open education’s long revolution: Cable Green on Future Trends Forum #11
- Chicago State University lays off one third of its staff, 300+ people
April 2016
- A master class on higher education economics: Future Trends Forum #10 with Robert Archibald: notes, Storify, and full video recording
- Oklahoma prepares for higher education cuts
- Open education and the future: Curtis Bonk on this week’s Future Trends Forum
- More Democrats urging higher education reform
- Bryan’s travels for the next month
- City College of San Francisco prepares a large queen sacrifice, suffering from low enrollment and high income inequality
- Mixed reality dreams: one look into Magic Leap
- Imagining the future of museums: winners from the AAM contest
- Good analysis of higher ed trends and strategy: Jon McGee’s _Breakpoint_
- Open education and the future: Cable Green on this week’s Future Trends Forum
- Parallel webs: actually having good discussions on Facebook
- Future Trends Forum #9 with Gardner Campbell: full recording, notes, and Storify
- Today’s Future Trends Forum: Robert Archibald and higher education economics
- Future Trends Forum and Gardner Campbell in Campus Technology
- Berkeley to cut many staff, but not yet conduct a queen sacrifice
- Future Trends Forum #8, with Jim Groom: full recording, notes, and Storify
- The emerging landscape of testing
- Future Trends Forum #7 with Deanna Marcum: notes and video
- This week on the Future Trends Forum: Gardner Campbell
- American professors using information: the latest Ithaka S+R survey results
- PhD market update: some progress, fewer jobs, more debt and internationalization
- More possible Congressional action against university endowments
- Still more small colleges under threat
March 2016
- The new US Secretary of Education just tore into higher education
- This week’s Forum features Jim Groom and radical digital learning
- I am all over the media this week, in podcasts and video
- Teenagers 3d printing local history: technology, pedagogy, and inspiration in Vermont
- More journalists now recognize with growing disgust what tv “news” has become
- Testing and the future of education: Anya Kamenetz on Future Trends Forum #6
- Are politicians from both parties now targeting higher education endowments?
- American tv news starts to glimpse the horror it has become
- The future of libraries and what higher ed leaders think of education: Deanna Marcum on the next Forum
- The future of education in 2016, from the sharing economy to BYOD: my Future Trends Forum recording and materials
- State budget crisis now causes Pennsylvania public higher education accreditation challenge
- Talking about the future of education with university business officers
- Undergrad majors: the humanities seriously down, STEM slowly rising
- Queen sacrifice in Delaware?
- “We’ve got to bring out the sharp knives”: another state’s education system faces serious cuts
- Automation in spring 2016: two glimpses of the future of technology and education
- This week’s Future Trends Forum: Anya Kamenetz, testing, and the future of schools
- More cuts to Illinois higher education
- Comparing two digital storytelling methods
- Education, agency, technology, and Will Richardson: Future Trends Forum #4
- Enabling a queen sacrifice: Wisconsin sets up the policy framework
- Future trends in technology and education – tomorrow, online
- Paying for higher education is getting even harder
- Defining personalized learning
- How not to write about grade inflation, or education, for that matter
- Technology and Casey Green on campus: Future Trends Forum #3, notes and full recording
- A campus slashes sports: a knight or rook sacrifice?
- We need to wean ourselves from the disaster of American tv news: three stories
- This Thursday, Future Trends Forum with Will Richardson
February 2016
- Recognizing a queen sacrifice by a business award
- Revolutions in higher education with Richard DeMillo: Future Trends Forum #2 notes and full recording
- Another Illinois campus prepares for massive cuts
- Resigning the game: Chicago State University sends layoff notices to all staff
- Dealing with a bad request, or how not to be an ask hole
- The next Future Trends Forum features Casey Green and the Campus Computing Project
- Why American higher education faculty tend to resist digital materials: new study
- Running for local office
- How can my state of Vermont attract younger people to live here?
- Louisiana considers a whole pile of academic sacrifices
- Today, the new Future Trends Forum, with Richard DeMillo
- Podcatching frustration: on leaving Stitcher, looking for a new podcast strategy
- Warpping up Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education
- Sapping the humanities: a possible alternative to the queen sacrifice
- Future Trends Forum #1: notes and full recording
- More information on Berkeley’s strategy
- Is Berkeley getting ready to consider a queen sacrifice?
- The Future Trends Forum starts this week, with Audrey Watters
- Illinois considers just plain sacrifices for its public universities
- Announcing the Future Trends Forum
- Charitable giving to higher education is now broken
January 2016
- Concordia College attempts a queen sacrifice
- Revolution in Higher Education: A Social Contract
- Denying tenure because of declining enrollment: is this a trend?
- Does technology reduce the costs of teaching?
- Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference
- Declining US higher education enrollment wounds Pearson
- Introducing the new Horizon Report in February
- Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 12, “Governing in the Age of Internet Empires”
- The new age of inequality and what it means for education: my January talk
- Podcasting about the future of education
- An innovative class on teaching the future
- A brace of education and technology trends for 2016
- Catching up with my latest book: Gearing Up for Learning Beyond K–12
- Best films of the year, “a new world of gods and monsters!” edition
- Undents, volvelles, and Didymus the Brazen-Gutted: notes on Ann M. Blair’s _Too Much to Know_
- Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 11
- Education in 2030: the Times of London looks head
- Reformatting college: presidents put campus standards up for negotiation
- Fine podcasts for 2016: a mega-list of what I’m listening to
- Best movies of the year, 1945
- Goldman Sachs looks at higher education, very darkly
- Top films of the year, 1955: crimes and times edition
- Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 10